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I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It looks equally as good as any other game that released the same year.

Elden Ring is pretty, but this simply isn't true.

When it comes to applying advanced modeling and rendering tech, fromsoft are amateurs.

Most famously, they have no clue what they are doing with shell texturing.

And the reason Elden Ring was a stuttery mess at launch on windows, was that they couldn't figure out that doing directx shader compilation on the fly without caching, is a terrible, terrible idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I totally agree with you, while Elden ring looks very nice, it is far from state of the art graphics, demons Souls PS5 show what it should look like if it went that way. I am happy they didn't and instead focus on gameplay and game zones. I really think a lot of game producers go for the extra graphical fidelity instead of focusing on game contents. Dragons dogma 2 recently is stunning production wise, but as much as I adore the game, I wish they went the Elden ring road and had a huge world with tons of stuff to do.